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mabramovich Dec 1, 2017 7:36 pm


Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 29124006)
If it is for US pre-clearance, that's true for all GE kiosks that I've used in the past year. Please discuss this topic in the following thread:
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator

No, Global Entry I am aware of. It's a more recent NEXUS change (for entry into Canada) that requires declaring all food.

seawolf Dec 1, 2017 7:45 pm


Originally Posted by mabramovich (Post 29123822)
Has anyone found any clever workaround on the new kiosks? The new kiosks require all food to be declared (at least at YYZ), so now your chocolate bar means you get to sent to secondary. When we were filling out the customs forms, it was only nuts, meat, etc. that had to be declared. There was no one in secondary today so I fast, but this could be a nightmare to wait in line to declare some chocolates for a gift or something - in fact it would be longer than NOT using Nexus because any officer would clear you with the chocolates.

Same choices as GE kiosk.

Pick one of the following:
  1. Don't bring food
  2. Don't use NEXUS
  3. Make a false declaration.
  4. Use general public CBSA eDeclaration app where the word "food" is not on the declaration.

pewpew Dec 3, 2017 9:16 am

Option 5: when you hand the Nexus printout to the person who directs you to secondary, tell them you declared food because you have chocolate. For me, that's let me bypass secondary in YYZ/YEG 100% of the time. Unless the layout of the inspection area has changed in the last year.

Cozmo456 Dec 3, 2017 1:13 pm

Today YYZ transborder. Asking for passports from everyone. Claiming Nexus does not mean anything to them any more.

Glad I always bring mine.

TheBOSman Dec 3, 2017 4:50 pm


Originally Posted by Cozmo456 (Post 29129770)
Today YYZ transborder. Asking for passports from everyone. Claiming Nexus does not mean anything to them any more.

Glad I always bring mine.

CBP or airline checkin, or elsewhere?

Cozmo456 Dec 3, 2017 6:54 pm

CBP. Everyone else was business as usual.

gglave Dec 11, 2017 4:28 pm

Apologies if this has been answered in the 10,000+ threads upstream :p but I'm a little confused about renewal. I just renewed Nexus via (what appeared to be the shiny new) Trusted Traveler Program site. How do I get a new card? The site hasn't told me I need to schedule an appointment, nor has it told me a card will arrive in the mail. What am I supposed to do next? It's all rather confusing.



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mapleg Dec 11, 2017 4:37 pm


Originally Posted by Cozmo456 (Post 29129770)
Today YYZ transborder. Asking for passports from everyone. Claiming Nexus does not mean anything to them any more.

Glad I always bring mine.

Amazing.

dustman81 Dec 11, 2017 5:47 pm


Originally Posted by gglave (Post 29162297)
Apologies if this has been answered in the 10,000+ threads upstream :p but I'm a little confused about renewal. I just renewed Nexus via (what appeared to be the shiny new) Trusted Traveler Program site. How do I get a new card? The site hasn't told me I need to schedule an appointment, nor has it told me a card will arrive in the mail. What am I supposed to do next? It's all rather confusing.



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From your screenshot, your're fully approved (no interview needed). A new card should arrive in a week after approval. Activate the new one, destroy the old one.

Finkface Dec 11, 2017 6:04 pm


Originally Posted by dustman81 (Post 29162555)
From your screenshot, your're fully approved (no interview needed). A new card should arrive in a week after approval. Activate the new one, destroy the old one.

Correct. I was approved for renewal a couple of weeks ago. The card arrived a few days later.

gglave Dec 12, 2017 11:14 am


Originally Posted by dustman81 (Post 29162555)
From your screenshot, your're fully approved (no interview needed). A new card should arrive in a week after approval. Activate the new one, destroy the old one.


Originally Posted by Finkface (Post 29162601)
Correct. I was approved for renewal a couple of weeks ago. The card arrived a few days later.

Thanks so much for the reassuring replies. Very strange that the site doesn't have a couple of extra sentences that explains what happens next. Then again, it's a government site, so perhaps not so strange after all.

missjane Dec 12, 2017 5:17 pm

Has anyone tried to view or renew their children's Nexus application/acct with the new Nexus site? My kids are too young to have an email address. How does one go about registering a minor without an email? Also, the new site can be time consuming to use or a lack of. It times you out so quickly you have just a few seconds to think rather than to blink.


Originally Posted by gglave (Post 29165541)
..Then again, it's a government site, so perhaps not so strange after all.

Yup, you said it first!

seawolf Dec 12, 2017 6:02 pm


Originally Posted by missjane (Post 29167012)
Has anyone tried to view or renew their children's Nexus application/acct with the new Nexus site? My kids are too young to have an email address. How does one go about registering a minor without an email? Also, the new site can be time consuming to use or a lack of. It times you out so quickly you have just a few seconds to think rather than to blink.

Any reason why you can't open/manage an email address for your children?

Newbie2FT Dec 12, 2017 6:42 pm


Originally Posted by missjane (Post 29167012)
Has anyone tried to view or renew their children's Nexus application/acct with the new Nexus site? My kids are too young to have an email address. How does one go about registering a minor without an email? Also, the new site can be time consuming to use or a lack of. It times you out so quickly you have just a few seconds to think rather than to blink.

Yup, you said it first!

If you personally use Gmail (for example, you have the address [email protected]), your kids' email address can easily be: [email protected] and [email protected]. There's no need to do any prep work before using those suffixes.

Likewise, if you use Yahoo mail, you can use the "disposable address" setting, so that your kids' email addresses are: [email protected] and [email protected]. That takes 30 seconds of prep work in the settings.

And of course, you can easily set up email accounts for them on any free web email service. It only takes a couple minutes.

Also, do the email addresses even need to be unique? Have you tried entering your own plain email address in that email address box on either kid's online application?

Jono Dec 13, 2017 8:59 am


Originally Posted by Newbie2FT (Post 29167281)
If you personally use Gmail (for example, you have the address [email protected]), your kids' email address can easily be: [email protected] and [email protected]. There's no need to do any prep work before using those suffixes.
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Also, do the email addresses even need to be unique? Have you tried entering your own plain email address in that email address box on either kid's online application?

I did this for my kids using my own gmail address with the +FirstName add-ons and it worked fine. I had initially tried using the same email address for all of them, but since it uses the email address as a login ID, they have to be unique.


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